And it started great...

Rating: 5/10 (19 August 2005)

This film started as a non-Michael Bay film. It started slowly, the dialog had some sort of importance, and there were some very good new ideas. The atmosphere was almost frightening. These clones appeared non-human, with the exception of McGregor's character, who sounds like a small boy stuck on the "why?" and "where?" questions. An indeed very interesting beginning, with Lincoln Six-Echo's trip "outside" adding some suspense.
Suspense? in a Michael Bay film? that's new, original, and refreshing. And that suspense is actually effective...
But then, good old Bay wakes up, notices he has a lot of toys, and screws everything up. From the escape of Jordan and Lincoln (a really over-long chase)to the end, it becomes a classical action flick. Running, driving, flying, it's just a succession of uninteresting chases, action scenes that were added not by the script writer (who did a great job with the story, BTW), but by the production. Should I had that the scenes are useless?
In the chaos of fast-paced action, loud sounds, and 1 second frames, the actors do a fine job. The most interesting being Sean Bean's character, a guy who isn't entirely evil nor good...
As a story, the themes, issues and all are very relevant and actual. That's not the point here. The point is that out of a very interesting script, Michael Bay gave us a film we have already seen again and again. Michael, next time, do as you did with the beginning of this film, but do it on the whole movie. And doesn't it feels good sometimes to have a few more-than-2-seconds frames??